* Delhi - Pollution comes from trucks industries diesel generators and open burning
-- "In an alarming bad-air situation like in Delhi, the public transport should ideally be based on electric rather than fossil fuel-based engines. There are other sectors that demand simultaneous action" ... Vehicles are certainly an important contributor to the problem of pollution and require to be controlled... Several studies assessed the impact of the odd-even scheme on pollutant concentrations and concluded a limited reduction of 5-13% in pollutant concentrations. It is mainly because the share of private cars towards prevailing PM concentrations is small ( less than 5%) and, even after accounting for additional reductions due to less idling by vehicles and reduced road dust re-suspension emissions, the impact could be limited... The air pollution issue in Delhi cannot be expected to be solved by looking at the city in isolation and taking remedial actions just within its boundaries. Modelling studies at the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) have suggested that the whole Indo-Gangetic plain is heavily polluted by particulate matter and the NCR is one of the hotspots. There are over 13 million vehicles in the NCR, with more than 8 million in Delhi itself...
Delhi, India -- The Economic Times, by Jai Malik and Sumit Sharma - 23 April 2016Labels: trucks' pollution
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